Richard Connor with dpa reports:
Intelligence officials in Germany on Tuesday said they were probing a suspected Russian online attack on the German Association for East European Studies (DGO).
The research group, specializing in foreign policy and international relations, is among several operating in Germany that Moscow has deemed “undesirable.”
What the intelligence agencies said
Both Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) were said to be investigating and working on the case.
According to the German mass-circulation newspaper Bild, the attack had been traced back to hacker group APT 29, also known as “Cozy Bear.”
Read more at DW.